According to the Energy Saving Trust, the average UK household spends more than £870 per year on fuel and power, and produces around six tonnes of CO². £300 of this cost (and around two tonnes of CO²) could be saved by being more energy efficient.
… by being more energy efficient. 1. Lofts and walls UK homes lose enough heat through roofs and walls to heat around three million homes a … around a third of your heating costs. Cavity wall insulation reduces heat loss by 60 per …
Paul Kingsnorth meets the Bristol-based chef with an eco-friendly restaurant and a mission to take real food to a wider community.
… high ceilings. A well-stocked bar lines one wall; the other features a mouthwatering … counter, a deli and open hatches in the wall through which you can see white-clad …
New research suggests strategies such as green roofs and vegetated parks will not be able to mitigate heat waves and flooding at the same time.
… of strategies such as green roofs, living walls, vegetated urban spaces and parks, a … our cities in the form of green roofs, living walls, vegetated urban spaces or parks. Not …
The Government's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has given the nod to a huge barrage across the Severn estuary which will result in the loss of 145 hectares of protected wetland habitat and a change in the intertidal area of some 14,428 hectares.
… sections of the estuary, ringed with rock walls. At high tide, water flows in through turbines set in the lagoon walls, generating electricity. At low tide, …
Home installations across Britain actually fell by more than 50 percent in the first half of 2022.
… heat that will simply escape through roofs, walls and draughty windows and doors. “The … heat that will simply escape through roofs, walls and draughty windows and doors. …
This story is on borrowed time. Maybe you can borrow it, and make it part of yours too.
… video, unsurprisingly, was of Professor Robin Wall Kimmerer , a botanist and member of the … that I had been told we were. Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about the intelligence of …
David Cameron promised to 'cut the green crap' to appease the right and the climate deniers in his party. But failing to insulate homes is now costing UK families £1.5 billion a year.
… either insulation and cavity or solid wall insulation, something which the group …
36 of the UK's leading construction companies, including British Land, Land Lease, HBOS and Barratt Homes, have launched a UK Green Building Council that will aim for "zero carbon, zero water and zero waste", according to its chairman Peter Rogers.
… homes in the UK, 9 million have cavity walls without insulation in them. The council, …
Half of British butterflies are now on the Red List for Great Britain - classed as either threatened or near threatened.
… in the countryside. Heath These include the wall butterfly, which is still a widespread … near-threatened to threatened, including swallowtails and Adonis blues. Head of science …
'Occasionally it'll strike. You just float into the middle of the water, look around you and think: "Wow, it’s all dying."'
… out what the eye liked – a feature of the sea wall, the way outlines appeared to melt away – … lines of frosted wild cherry and alder, walls of slaty mudstone rising like a great …
It’s not just our light bulbs we need to change, says Laura Sevier. We need to rethink the way we light
… architectural practice Arco2, in Cornwall. ‘With north light there’s constant … a light, airy indoors • Use pale colours for walls, ceilings and floors wherever possible • …
Unnoticed by most of the media, New Labour has embarked on a roadbuilding scheme just as large as the one the Tories bragged was ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and everyone – from doctors and teachers, to old-style road protestors – are once again saying: enough is enough. Paul Kingsnorth reports
… to fill them – and the writing was on the wall. The government caved in. Its road … then, try this list instead. The Save Swallows Wood Campaign, in the Peak District, …